Modern Poet .
“The saviour of modern poetry … this guy Eminem has created a sense of what is possible. He has sent a voltage around a generation.” Seamus Heaney. Guy Adams writes, “He has done this not just through his subversive attitude but also his verbal energy…. A decade ago, Mathers – an angry young man from the wrong side of Detroit – decided to bleach his hair, adopt the alter ego Slim Shady and transform the landscape of popular music. In six years, from 1999 to 2005, he recorded five extraordinary albums that sold nearly 50 million copies and gave the city of Motown a new chapter in its musical history.
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“I’m not afraid, to take a stand.
Everybody, come take my hand.
We’ll walk this road together, through the storm, whatever weather.
Just lettin’ you know that you’re not alone.
Holler if you feel like you’ve been down the same road.
And I just can’t keep livin’ this way, so starting today.
I’m breaking out of this cage …”
Eminem
“I’m frightened Alice, have I gone mad?” “I’m afraid so”, says Alice. “You’re entirely bonkers but I’ll tell you a secret – all the best people are.”
(Tim Winton’s film version of Alice in Wonderland.)
‘Bad-time Stories’ article by Phillip Adams , (The Weekend Australian Magazine March 13-14, 2010)
“Remember the once-upon-a-time time? When children were scared by fairy stories about giants and beanstalks and old crones with gingerbread cottages? The macabre Punch and Judy have long since given way to cinema and television and “childhood innocence” is an oxymoron. Thanks to screens big and little, kids are bombarded with brutal images pretty much as soon as they leave the labour ward. And marketers are well on the way to sexualising children before they start kindergarten.
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Did you know Helena Bonham Carter’s Mum is a Psychotherapist? And shares her Mother’s sympathetic view of bullies saying … “Everybody has a heart and some people’s hearts have just been really damaged and they’ve forgotten how to love or feel lovable. Anybody that tiny inside needs to make themselves feel bigger, so they put people down.”
Quote from Weekend Australian Newspaper Review 27-28 March.
Rock The Boat .
In the darkness little helpers gathered . spilling rich black ink into soft white sheets . tailoring picture books to fill empty spaces … a few lines from a poem. The poem comes to life through a very special little book. Special, because it’s been handwritten by a young soul and for the message the handwriting carries.
Many young people I meet don’t write because they believe or have been told their handwriting is too messy, spelling all wrong, stories too bad to tell; and no-one would want to hear them anyway. So I asked one of these young people if they’d like to hand write ‘Rock The Boat’ book. We’ve been meeting regularly for well over a year now. Papers shuffling back and forth across tables in parks, libraries, cafes and quiet nooks. I bring a supply of inky brush pens; paper soft and white; the Army of Ink drawings and stories. Each piece is published in its raw and authentic form, complete with scribbling out and spelling mistakes. We hope it will encourage others to put pen to paper too.
